An oil company executive posted to a North African port in the Second World War is stunned to discover his assignment includes actual frontline duty with the British army. He finds himself dispatched on a mission to destroy a German fuel reserve in the desert, and comes into conflict with a tough experienced soldier under his command. Adventure, starring Michael Caine, Nigel Davenport and Harry Andrews.

During World War II in North Africa, a group of British commandos disguised as Italian soldiers must travel behind enemy lines and destroy a vital Nazi oil depot.